Publications by authors named "Teng Shu"
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- - The study explores the link between cycle threshold (Ct) values in pertussis patients and their clinical presentation, focusing on children and their adult family members at a hospital in China from May 2022 to March 2024.
- - Results showed a positive correlation between Ct values and age, with children having lower mean Ct values (28.0) than adults (32.0), which was also associated with the length of hospital stay, indicating disease severity.
- - The findings suggest that lower Ct values at diagnosis could help predict more severe disease outcomes in children with pertussis, highlighting the potential of real-time PCR in clinical assessments.
One of the major health issues facing people worldwide is liver fibrosis. Liver fibrosis may be brought on by long-term exposure to harmful substances, medicines, and microorganisms. The development of liver fibrosis in children was particularly worrying due to their longer life-span, which was possibly related to a great risk of developing long-term complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Clinical features of 19 children infected with the Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in Hangzhou, China].
Zhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi
October 2022
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- The study analyzed the clinical features of 19 children diagnosed with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Hangzhou between January and March 2022.
- The majority of the children were under 3 years old, with most presenting mild symptoms, particularly cough and fever, and no severe cases reported.
- All children received supportive care, with a significant portion treated with aerosol inhalation of interferon α, and all were ultimately cured and discharged.
Introduction: Surgical management is commonly used for thyroid cancer. We evaluated the effects of systemic lidocaine versus dexmedetomidine on the recovery quality and analgesia after thyroid cancer surgery.
Methods: A total of 120 patients with thyroid cancer were randomly allocated to group L (received lidocaine 1.
Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone Associated With Varicella Infection in Children.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
September 2022
A 9-year-old girl with remarkable hyponatremia was diagnosed with SIADH that was likely secondary to varicella. Under appropriate treatment, her serum sodium returned to the normal level. There was no evidence of hyponatremia at a 3-month follow-up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Parathyroidectomy has been proposed as a method for reducing parathyroid hormone levels. We evaluated the effects of ultrasound-guided bilateral superficial cervical plexus block (BSCPB) on the quality of recovery of uremia patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) following parathyroidectomy.
Methods: Eighty-two uremia patients who underwent parathyroidectomy and exhibited SHPT were randomly allocated to the BSCPB group or the control group (CON group).
Background: Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is a common pediatric infectious disease caused by a variety of intestinal viruses. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the primary pathogen that might cause severe symptoms and even death in children with HFMD. This study aimed to investigate the intestinal detoxification time of HFMD children with EV71 infection and its related factors.
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- The study focused on the duration of viral shedding in stool samples of children with hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by enterovirus-71 (EV71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CoxA16), aiming to examine how this duration relates to illness severity.
- A total of 113 confirmed cases were analyzed, with children split into distinct groups based on the virus type and severity of their condition, and stool samples were collected and tested for viral nucleic acids over several weeks.
- Results showed that the median duration of stool viral shedding was similar for both EV71 and CoxA16 groups, but viral presence in stools decreased significantly over time, particularly in the severe illness subgroup of
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- Pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) can cause lung injury, potentially due to inflammatory cytokines, and this study explores how different pulmonary venous pressure (PVP) levels influence this process.
- The researchers compared conditions of 0 mm Hg PVP and 5 mm Hg PVP during a 60-minute ischemic period in rat lungs to assess effects on cytokine expression and lung damage.
- Results showed that maintaining a positive PVP (5PVP) prevented cytokine expression and associated injury, suggesting that this method could improve lung preservation for transplantation.
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- The study aimed to determine how cytokine mRNA expression is affected by artificial perfusate or ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in an isolated rat lung model.
- Rats underwent a procedure where the left pulmonary artery was occluded for 60 minutes and then reperfused for 30 minutes, while constant ventilation and perfusion were maintained.
- Results showed increased vascular permeability and significant changes in cytokine mRNA expression in the I/R lung, with a particular trend based on whether low-endotoxin (LE) or standard (ST) perfusate was used, indicating complex inflammatory responses.